The 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

In 2004, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, yet issues of racial and ethnic integration in schools and colleges remain. The articles in this Issue explore both the processes and implications of interethnic contact in educational settings from elementary schools through universities, and suggest courses of action for educational institutions in the 21st century. outlines strategies schools and colleges can use to foster better interethnic relationships on campus examines what predominantly White schools and colleges can do in faculty hiring and training and student programs to better address the needs of their students of color explores links between peer relationships at school and achievement motivation for students of color studies the implications of "English only" policies on the education of immigrant populations investigates the struggles of faculty of color at predominantly White institutions.

50 years after Brown vs. Board of Education: the promise and challenge of multicultural education / Sabrina Zirkel and Nancy Cantor The benefits of diversity in education for democratic citizenship / Patricia Gurin, Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda, and Gretchen E. Lopez Developing a more inclusive social identity : an elementary school intervention / Melissa A. Houlette, et al What will you think of me?: racial integration, peer relationships, and achievement among white students and students of color / Sabrina Zirkel Interethnic contact, curriculum, and attitudes in the first year of college / Gretchen E. Lopez Is there an inherent mismatch between how black and white students expect to succeed in college and what their colleges expect from them? / Aaron M. Brower and Annemarie Ketterhagen Family life and school experience: factors in the racial identity development of black youth in white communities / Beverly Daniel Tatum Shift happens: Spanish and English transmission between parents and their children / Aída Hurtado and Luis A. Vega Students' of color and European American students' stigma-relevant perceptions of university instructors / Lisa M. Brown and Heather Dobbins Color-lines as fault-line: teaching interethnic relations in California in the 21st century / Stanley O. Gaines, Jr Learning about difference, learning with others, learning to transgress / Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda, Chan-woo Kim, and Yaffa Truelove Science and social action: an introduction of Professor Daphne B. Bugental, recipient of SPSSI's 2003 Levin Award / Marilynn B. Brewer Thriving in the face of early adversity / Daphne Blunt Bugental